Well, it’s Friday and that is good. February also draws to a close and that is even better.
Some llamas were on the run in Sun City, Arizona and Twitter had fun with it. Folks even got “Lorenzo Lamas” trending. Fine work, all around.
Speaking of ON THE RUN. Hail Beyoncé.
I hate being reminded that there is little reality to reality television. Pimp My Ride? More like Pimp Our Lies! Sadness.
If you are looking for something to do in NYC on March 19th, this looks like a cool event featuring Janeane Garofalo, Sara Benincasa, Naomi Ekperigin, and more!
HBO has announced a fellowship for diverse writers. Check it out.
The FCC has passed net neutrality. We are free to participate in llama memes without suffering unequal access to bandwith. Or something. Math is hard.
Diversity sells. This is something we know! Maybe producers and studio executives will finally get the message. Also, diversity shouldn’t need to sell for it to matter.
You can now fill in the blank to identify your gender on Facebook. Progress!
Is a student loan revolt beginning? This is an interesting article about some students who are refusing to repay predatory student loans.
In the fall of 2013, Mallory Heiney returned from a mission trip to Guinea with a plan to go into health care. She enrolled in classes at a for-profit college called Everest Institute, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, expecting to graduate with a degree that would help her become a nurse. But, after less than a year, she said, her instructors stopped showing up. Corinthian Colleges, the company that owned Everest, had admitted that its finances were in trouble, and that it expected to go out of business; it later said it would shut down several campuses, including the one in Grand Rapids. Heiney graduated but felt she had learned very little. When she tells people where she went, she told me, she gets sympathetic looks. She said, “You go to school so they look at you and think, ‘Wow, this person must be educated’—not so they look at you and think, ‘Oh, this person went to Everest. They must be trash.’ ” Heiney’s student debts include more than ten thousand dollars owed to the federal government and more than ten thousand dollars in private loans; that’s what remains after she repaid some of the interest on her debts while she was in college, in part by selling her own plasma.
KFC, continuing to do frightening things in food engineering, has made an edible coffee cup. Why? I do not know why.
I am not even going to get into that dress thing. I simply cannot.
“Travel writing” is hard, I guess.
(The dress is blue and black.)
